RAW CREATIVITY
What I’m learning as an Artist dancing with the Creative Process
and as an Art Therapist working with Others and their Creativity
Welcome to The RAW Creativity blog where I’ll be exploring everything I know and am learning about creativity: creativity and the mind; barriers to creativity; ideas about getting into creative flow; coloring; crafting; artist identity; etc. Your comments and insights are more than welcome!
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Buy Your Christmas/Holiday Presents from Artists and Craftsman this Year The Artist Sunday MovementA grassroots movement—Artist Sunday–is taking hold! This year it will be Sunday, Nov 29, 2021, sandwiched squarely between Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday. When You’re Doing Your Holiday Shopping, Buy Art!The message of Artist …
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Lacy Mucklow is the third art therapist to be featured here in RAW Creativity. A Prescient Coloring Book To Help People to Relax and Feel Calmer In 2013, well before the coloring book craze took off, Lacy was approached by a publishing company to write content for a couple of …
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For those of you who might not know what a mandala is, at its simplest it is just a circular design. However, many people believe that mandalas hold spiritual meaning that we respond to fundamentally as humans. Susanne Fincher, another art therapist whose work I am featuring here, created a …
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In the next couple of posts, I will be highlighting coloring books that come from the art therapy world. I’ll start off with Rebecca Bloom. Rebecca is an art therapist who created her first coloring book, Square the Circle, after she’d been exploring practices like yoga and the Chakras with …
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Why Should You Care About National Coloring Book Day?! September 14 In the midst of the never-ending streams of distressing news, it’s hard to say with a straight face that something as trivial as coloring should be important to you. Indeed, you might ask why we are celebrating an event …